Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1988
12 recordings
MEETING LENGTH: 5 HOURS AND 55 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1988
PLACE RECORDED: TAMBORINE MTN, AUSTRALIA
SESSIONS
The electromagnetic net over the earth
Length: 30 minutes
Set on a mountainside, the talk confronts recent killings to expose the root: violence begins in the head when sensation rises uncontained; the work is to drop it to the stomach and live now.
Guardian of the threshold: your life as it is
Length: 30 minutes
“Guardian of the threshold” means your life as it is, demanding direct confrontation with recurring problems. The guardian is the entirety of your past manifesting now.
Sea against land: truth erodes resistance
Length: 30 minutes
The talk opens on Tamborine Mountain with birds and lilies, then turns to a living metaphor: the sea as truth, the land as resistance. Truth constantly presses; suffering is standing against it. The answer is to be the matter you are and apply the truth of now, without study or intermediaries.
No soul, no self, only I now
Length: 30 minutes
The talk dismantles “soul” and “self” as structures of unhappiness and separation, revealing only I—being—now. Duality collapses, and with it the need for hope.
The master who comes from inner space
Length: 30 minutes
The talk keeps the listener in the present while recounting the past arrival of a living master, unveiling the inner universe, the priority of feeling over knowledge, and the practical triad of possibility–opportunity–actuality that ends confusion and exposes the subtle craving for what we already have.
Quantity and quality: the two sciences of life
Length: 28 minutes
The talk contrasts present, quantitative science with a new science of consciousness that honours the quality of life—love and truth—now.
Acknowledgement, not thanks, makes love grow
Length: 29 minutes
The talk distinguishes shallow thanks from living acknowledgement, which ripens into gratitude—the true prayer that gives of itself and returns as more love in children, partners, and daily work.
The teacher and the master: need versus presence
Length: 29 minutes
The teacher serves need; the master is presence. Emotion must be faced; love knows where to be—physically with the master who mirrors the inner truth.
Ready to say goodbye, ready to die
Length: 30 minutes
The talk asks whether one is ready to say goodbye—which means ready to die—and shows that maturity is a life and love fully acknowledged, with nothing left unsaid to partner, child, parent, or the earth.
From secret to sacred: keeping the line clear
Length: 29 minutes
The talk opens in living nature and moves straight to freedom: accept yourself without action or reaction, and the energy for real change appears. From there, it exposes everyday lying, clarifies the sacred versus the merely secret, and sets a radical order for relationship and service. It closes by confronting the false gods of food and money, and by urging surrender beyond competition into simple doing of one’s best.
Divining the gold within: gratitude as the way
Length: 30 minutes
The talk begins outdoors among birds and insects and moves straight to clarity: the world without rises from the reality within. Divining is reclaimed from prediction and made practical—feel gratitude now, and you divine the gold of divine love.
How to work miracles
Length: 30 minutes
Working miracles is to feel what is truly wanted without name or image and remain present with it; the feeling itself aligns with the inevitable will and draws right life to you.
